© Deutsche Dermatologische Gesellschaft • Journal compilation © Blackwell Verlag GmbH, Berlin • JDDG • 1610-0379/2012 JDDG | 2012 (Band 10) Preamble The present guideline was primarily prepared by representatives of the field dermatology and dermatosurgery and is based on the S1 guideline of the German Society of Dermatology from 2004 [1]. Besides the dermatologists many other disciplines are i...

BACKGROUND Universities worldwide are seeking objective measures for the assessment of their faculties' research products to evaluate them and to attain prestige. Despite concerns, the impact factors (IF) of journals where faculties publish have been adopted. RESEARCH OBJECTIVE The study aims to explore conditions created within five countries as a result of policies requiring or not requirin...

This article introduces the new Continuing Medical Education (CME) section of the interactive Journal of Radiology Case Reports. This section provides SA-CMEs which are a new requirement for Maintenance of Certification (MOC) by the American Board of Radiology (ABR) and other medical specialties.

I f you notice any particularly fidgety journal editors this month don’t worry—this is merely a symptom of the imminent release of the next round of the dreaded, dreadful Journal Impact Factors (JIFs). Editors are concerned, because the JIF directly impacts their journal, as it influences if researchers choose it to publish their research. JIF has a number of flaws, but one entirely outside an ...

BACKGROUND Little information exists on the research productivity of successfully promoted tenure-track Doctor of Physical Therapy (DPT) faculty. OBJECTIVE To determine the research productivity that typically results in successful promotion. DESIGN We collected publicly available curriculum vitae (CVs) from faculty currently in accredited DPT programs and who had been successfully promoted...

The uses and misuses of the Journal Impact Factor (JIF) have been thoroughly discussed in the literature. A few years ago, I predicted that JIF would soon be replaced, while another colleague argued the opposite. Over the past few months, attacks on JIF have intensified, with some publishing organizations gradually removing the indicator from their journals' websites. Here, I argue that most, i...

and volumetric analysis of the caudate nucleus inAlzheimer's disease. A critical evaluation of the lateralizing significance of material-specific memory deficits in patients with mesial temporal lobe epilepsy with hippocampal sclerosis. Effect of screening on the risk estimates of socio demographic factors on cervical cancer-a large cohort study from rural India..

OBJECTIVES Research activities are promoted at the government and the institutional levels in Oman. However, the quantity and quality of research conducted in various institutes of Oman has not been measured. Therefore, this study was conducted to analyze the quantity and quality of biomedical publications emanating from Oman over the last five years (2005-2009). METHODS Data regarding the bi...

BACKGROUND Influential medical journals shape medical science and practice and their prestige is usually appraised by citation impact metrics, such as the journal impact factor. However, how permanent are medical journals and how stable is their impact over time? METHODS AND RESULTS We evaluated what happened to general medical journals that were publishing papers half a century ago, in 1959....

BACKGROUND h-index is useful for quantifying scholarly activity in medicine, but this statistic has not been extensively applied as a measure of productivity in anaesthesia. We conducted a bibliometric analysis of h-index in editorial board members and tested the hypothesis that editorial board members of anaesthesia journals with higher impact factors (IFs) have higher h-indices. METHODS Ten...